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USFSA Football Championship
Organising body	USFSA
Founded	1898
Abolished	1914; 111 years ago
Region	France
Last champions	Olympique lillois (1914)
Most successful club(s)	RC Roubaix; (7 titles)

The USFSA Football Northern Championship was a French football competition, contested annually between 1898 and 1914 and organized by the Northern Committee of the Union of French Athletic Sports Societies (USFSA), which brought together clubs from the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments.^[1]

From 1899 onwards, the winner of this regional competition qualified for the USFSA Football Championship, where the northern clubs competed with the Parisian clubs, becoming French champion seven times, including five from RC Roubaix, and one each from both US Tourquennoise and Olympique lillois.^[1] Thanks to the results of the Lions of Flanders and Olympique Lillois in the early 1910s, it can reasonably be said that northern football was the best in France, but then the First World War broke out, in which Northern France was occupied for 4 years, thus interrupting the activities of the team and causing the death of many of its players.^[2] On 19 August 1919, the Northern Football Association League (LNFA) was founded by twenty clubs, which began competing in the Northern Football League [es].^[3]

Format

The USFSA Northern Championship was divided in two: the land and the maritime, whose winners were opposed in a final. The former was usually won by US Boulogne or RC Calais in the maritime championship, and then only met RC Roubaix or US Tourquennoise in the regional final.^[4]

1900–01 Northern Championship

The final featured the winners of the interior and maritime groups, the Iris Club lillois and the US Calais, on the "deplorable state" pitch of the Iris Club on 10 February 1901 in front of a "large crowd".^[5] The match was very unbalanced, and after conceding nine goals, US Calais gave up, so the rest of the match was basically a training session, with Lillois finally winning by the resounding score of 15–0, thanks to goals from Munce (7), Dévit (4), Guilloux (3), and Bauet (1).^[5]

1905–06 Northern Championship

In the 1906 final between the maritime champions Boulogne and the land champions Roubaix, the latter won 1–0 thanks to a goal from André François.^[4]

1909–10 Northern Championship

On 27 February 1910, US Tourquennoise won the title on the last matchday by holding Olympique Lillois to a 0–0 draw, who needed a victory to be champion.^[6]^[7]

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Team	W	L	W	L	US Tourquennoise (title holder)	Olympique lillois	RC Calais	RC Roubaix	Stade roubaisien	SC tourquennois	US Boulogne	US Malo-les-Bains	SO calaisien	US Calais

1911–12 Northern Championship

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Team	W	L	W	L	US Tourquennoise	RC Calais	Olympique lillois (title holder)	RC Roubaix	Stade roubaisien	US boulonnaise	US Malo-les-Bains	SC tourquennois

1912–13 Northern Championship

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	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L		Olympique lillois	US Tourquennoise (title holder)	RC Roubaix	RC Calais	US Boulogne	Stade roubaisien	RC Arras (promoted)	US Malo

1913–14 Northern Championship

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	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L		Olympique lillois (title holder)	US Tourquennoise	Club lillois (promoted)	US Boulogne	RC Roubaix	Stade roubaisien	RC Calais	OSC boulonnais (promoted)}

Titles

Edition	Winners	Score	Runner-up	Result in the French Championship
1898	Iris Club lillois			No participation
1899	Iris Club lillois			Semi-final
1900	US Tourquennoise			Semi-final
1901	Iris Club lillois			Semi-final
1902	RC Roubaix			Champion
1903	RC Roubaix			Champion
1904	RC Roubaix			Champion
1905	RC Roubaix			Final
1906	RC Roubaix	1–0	US Boulogne	Champion
1907	RC Roubaix			Final
1908	RC Roubaix			Champion
1909	US Tourquennoise			Semi-final
1910	US Tourquennoise			Champion
1911	Olympique lillois			Quarter-finals
1912	US Tourquennoise			Semi-final
1913	Olympique lillois			Quarter-finals
1914	Olympique lillois			Champion

References

^ ^a ^b "France - List of Champions". RSSSF. 11 October 2024. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
^ "Septembre 1925: le Real Madrid à Lille, première" [September 1925: Real Madrid in Lille, first]. droguebierecomplotlosc.unblog.fr (in French). 1 October 2024. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
^ "Henri Jooris (1879-1940), ou l'incarnation du "césarisme sportif" dans l'entre-deux-guerres?" [Henri Jooris (1879-1940), or the incarnation of “sporting Caesarism” in the interwar period?]. books.openedition.org (in French). Retrieved 30 November 2024.
^ ^a ^b "Les premiers Bleus: Georges Bon, comme son nom l'indique" [The first Blues: Georges Bon, as his name indicates]. www.chroniquesbleues.fr (in French). 21 March 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
^ ^a ^b "Championant du Nord (U.S.F.S.A.) - 1re catégorie" [Northern Championship (USFSA) - 1st category]. gallica.bnf.fr (in French). L'Auto. 11 February 1901. p. 6. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
^ "Football association". gallica.bnf.fr (in French). L'Auto. 28 February 1910. p. 5. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
^ "Dans le Nord" [In the North]. gallica.bnf.fr (in French). Dunkerque-sports. 6 March 1910. p. 6. Retrieved 30 November 2024.